HUD's Castro noted that the VA program limits its loan guarantee to a maximum of 25 percent, leaving many lenders exposed and reluctant to offer VA-guaranteed loans.

After all, didn’t America suffer a housing “depression” because credit was too loose? Some GOP conservatives in Congress live by the edict: those who can own; those who can’t rent…

At press time, the firm’s share price was getting crushed, down 25 percent on the day to a new 52-week low of $19.89.

It’s not clear whether the rest of the industry will push the third-quarter origination results higher.

This could mean lenders would require borrowers to lock interest rates only during business hours or even early in the day.

Buyers of “bulk” Ginnie mortgage servicing rights will have to meet the test by January 2015.

Charbonneau, Klein and other advisors report that mortgage M&A activity is the strongest it has been in years.

What does IBM have to do with the mortgage business? Actually quite a bit, IBM is one of Fannie Mae’s largest technology vendors...

In defining misrepresentations, FHFA will set a minimum number of loans that must be identified with one of the six trigger elements.

Creation of a single GSE MBS would eliminate Freddie Mac's pricing disadvantage and improve liquidity in the to-be-announced market.